College
The Commission college had 20 members (two for the largest four member states, one each for the remainder) and included Commissioners from new member states Sweden, Finland and Austria. Had Norway not rejected EU membership in 1995, their Commissioner would have been Thorvald Stoltenberg who was proposed as Commissioner for Fisheries;
| Portfolio(s) | Commissioner | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| President |
Jacques Santer |
Luxembourg |
CSV EPP |
| Vice-President; Commercial Policy and External Relations |
Leon Brittan |
United Kingdom |
Con. ED |
| Vice-President; External Relations |
Manuel Marin |
Spain |
PSOE PES |
| Internal Market, Services Customs and Taxation | Mario Monti |
Italy |
independent |
| Agriculture & Rural Development | Franz Fischler |
Austria |
ÖVP EPP |
| Competition | Karel Van Miert |
Belgium |
SP PES |
| Economic & Financial Affairs |
Yves-Thibault de Silguy |
France |
independent |
| Employment & Social Affairs and relations with the EESC | Pádraig Flynn |
Ireland |
FF AEN |
| Consumer Policy, Fisheries and ECHO | Emma Bonino |
Italy |
TRP ELDR |
| Environment and nuclear security | Ritt Bjerregaard |
Denmark |
SD PES |
| Industrial affairs, Information & Telecommunications Technologies | Martin Bangemann |
Germany |
FDP ELDR |
| Transport, including TEN | Neil Kinnock |
United Kingdom |
Labour PES |
| Energy, Euratom Supply Agency, SMEs and Tourism | Christos Papoutsis |
Greece |
PASOK PES |
| Immigration, Justice & Home Affairs, Financial Control, Anti-fraud and Relations with the European Ombudsman. |
Anita Gradin |
Sweden |
SDWP PES |
| Budget, Personnel and Administration | Erkki Liikanen |
Finland |
SDP PES |
| Regional Policy |
Monika Wulf-Mathies |
Germany |
SPD PES |
| Research, Science & Technology |
Édith Cresson |
France |
PS PES |
| Relations with Central & Eastern Europe, CFSP and the External Service | Hans van den Broek |
Netherlands |
CDA EPP |
| Relations with African, Caribbean, Pacific Countries, South Africa and the Lomé Convention |
João de Deus Pinheiro |
Portugal |
PSD EPP |
| Relations with the European Parliament, Culture, Audiovisual Policy, |
Marcelino Oreja |
Spain |
PP EPP |
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Famous quotes containing the word college:
“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,—a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,—to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)